UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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ABDULLAH WAZIR ZADRAN, )

et al., )

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Petitioners, )

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v. ) Civil Action No. 05-2367 (RWR)

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BARACK H. OBAMA et al., )

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Respondents. )

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ORDER

The May 12, 2011 order issued by Judge Hogan granted the

government’s motion to designate as protected under the

Protective Order governing the Guantánamo Bay detainee litigation

“sensitive but unclassified information falling within one of the

following six categories”:

1. Names and/or other information that would tend to

identify certain U.S. government employees, FBI Joint

Terrorism Task Force members, or contractors —

specifically, law enforcement officers, agents,

translators, intelligence analysts, or interrogators,

all below the Senior Executive Service or General

Officer level — [or] the family members of detainees.

2. Information that would reveal the existence, focus,

or scope of law enforcement or intelligence operations,

including the sources, witnesses, or methods used and

the identity of persons of interest.

3. Information indicating the names or locations,

including geo-coordinates, of locations of interest as

they pertain to counter-terrorism intelligence

gathering, law enforcement, or military operations,

where the Government has not previously acknowledged

[publicly] its knowledge of those names or locations.
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4. Information that would reveal the Government’s

knowledge of telephone numbers, websites, passwords,

passcodes, and e-mail addresses used by known or

suspected terrorists, or discussions of the manner in

which known or suspected terrorists use these methods

for communications with one another.

5. Information regarding the use, effectiveness, or

details regarding the implementation of certain

interrogation approaches and techniques approved by

Executive Order 13491 and described in the Army Field

Manual No. 2-22.3.

6. Certain administrative data, operational

“nicknames,” code words, dates of acquisition,

including dates of interrogations, and FBI case names

and file numbers, contained in the intelligence

documents included in the factual returns.

In re Guantánamo Bay Detainee Litig., 787 F. Supp. 2d 5, 8

(D.D.C. 2011). The respondents have filed an unopposed motion to

deem protected information highlighted in the proposed factual

return for petitioner Mohammad Rahim. Upon review of the

material submitted by the respondents, it is hereby 

ORDERED that the respondents’ motion [379] to deem as

protected the material highlighted in the accompanying proposed

public factual return be, and hereby is, GRANTED, and the

information identified by the respondents with gray and green

highlighting in the version of the factual return submitted under

seal is deemed protected under paragraphs 10 and 34 of the

Protective Order governing the Guantánamo Bay detainee

litigation. It is further

ORDERED that the parties confer and agree upon a properly

redacted version of this factual return that addresses and
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resolves all the concerns of the parties, and that the parties

agree can be filed on the public docket. Respondents shall file

that version by March 9, 2012. 

SIGNED this 7th day of February, 2012.

 /s/ 

RICHARD W. ROBERTS

United States District Judge